Somercotes Scans - Belper Walks

Enable local people to walk and wheel more in their own neighbourhood.

We are promoting Active Travel in Somercotes, Ironville and Riddings which means encouraging people to walk or wheel short distances rather than drive. We hope to highlight the barriers to walking and wheeling locally and also highlight the positives. We need your help in testing these routes.

Routes are on pavements in Somercotes, Riddings and Ironville; they are either circular routes for daily exercise or connecting routes to get to school, the park, a shop, the medical centre or purely for enjoyment and socialising. There are 18 in total and are all under 600m with many connected to one another.

What you need to do

Find one or more routes to test – see list below
View the map and video of each route you want to test, to see where to go
Understand what features we are looking for
Test the routes by walking or wheeling them
Send us your feedback using the short online form (quicker) or long online form (more detail)

The routes should be accessible to everybody; however we’d like your help to help check this and to record any challenges we hadn’t considered. Feedback from younger and older people and people with health conditions that affect vision and/or mobility will be particularly helpful.

A map of the whole test area can be seen on Google My Maps. Click ‘Legend’ to show and hide the routes and + and – to zoom in and out.